How To Make WiFi VOIP Calls On Your Cell Phone

Walt Mossberg just wrote about T-Mobile’s launch of the wifi/cellphone that automatically switches from one to the other whenever you enter/leave a hotspot. If you start a call on wifi and leave the hotspot coverage area, it automatically switches the call over to the cellular network and vice versa. But what if you don’t want T-mobile? Or want to make voip calls on your own smartphone? Here’s how. . .

My friend that has the Nokia e65 with Wifi capabilities loves this feature becuase he’s a true internationall caller and international calls over VOIP are tons cheaper than billed by the carrier. Plus voip is so much more reliable that spotty cell phone coverage in many areas – especially inside buildings. He’s tipped me on truphone.com previously but now there’s an even sweeter reason to try it out — TruPhone is now giving unlimited calling to 40 countries until the end of the year.

If you think making a VOIP call on your cell phone is cumbersome, here’s a demo video of a truphone voip call on a nokia cell phone: